Relevant XKCD : https://xkcd.com/243/
Ummm
They still do
Remember? I still got one.
And like a clit I can’t work those other.
I like that they’re there, but I find them all but unusable. Sensitivity on them is wild, plus large hands. Sometimes finger rolls off and presses keys around it.
I loved mine, but it does take more fine motor movements than a typical mouse
The only thing mine does is leave smudges on the screen.
I played so much Minecraft with the clit mouse on a old dell laptop. Its was awesome.
That was significantly better than a touchpad
Lenovo gang, if the X series ever gets rid of it I’m not sure I’ll survive
Both of my work laptops got one (they replace older models every few years, but it’s all ThinkPads)
They’re one of the greatest things to ever come out of IBM.
Yeah, but those things burned out if you got them too wet.
Give me that anytime over a laptops usual scratch’n’sniff pad. Because whenever I type on the keyboard, I trigger this thing from afar, sending the cursor everywhere. Somehow, those things react to me remotely.
We always called it a nipple, no wonder we couldn’t find it!
